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– Dave Davison is the subject of Project: New Man, a partly secret joint venture of the U.S. Government and the Fortress Foundation, a private sector non-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to public defense and scientific research. Dave has the dual role of being part of the research project and at the same time being groomed by the Government as a public protector in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area. Dave has a dark past which he hoped was dead and buried but in his first public adventure he confronts his past and an old partner head on in “The Mall Massacres”. Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 32 page Independent Comic: Project: New Man #1is FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– His actual identity is as much a mystery as what drives him. He calls himself Ebenezer Baal, and he is The Haunted Man but he intends for misery to have company as he in turn haunts Dave Davison a.k.a New Man. We find out in this origin tale Dave was not always a hero, and it seems his past is easily as shady as the criminals he now pursues! Co-Starring The Thunder Hawks! The backup story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Dave Davison A.K.A New Man goes out for a morning jog only to return to the Moriah Building under a full scale attack from Cyber-Tech! Also featuring Bearcat, and the Thunder Hawks! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– We tie up a lot of loose ends in this issue as The Haunted Man concludes. We find out the true identity of Ebeneezer Baal, see Bearcat in action again, see the abduction of Fawn and Nick, Cyber-Tech escapes plus a special secret surprise guest-star! Yeah! This one has it all!Featuring lots of never before published and some ALL-NEW material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– High crime rates, higher gas prices, inflation and garbage strikes, are one thing but the recent unnatural storms have the residents Five Lakes Megalopolis rattled. Then the appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers precede the coming of a walking, flying nightmare! His name is Megeddon, Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Krystal McKliston is an investigative reporter looking into these mysteries as she learns there are “Humants Among Us!”The lead story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark must enter into deadly battle with Megeddon, the Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Their goal: no less than total world destruction! Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. She later comfronts a new villain: The Tower! Janeta Rosebud meets Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same! The lead story from Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants #2! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Omnispawn ushers in yet another Humant: The Savage Chaosta! Also having survived their first encounter with the evil Dark Lord Mageddon, the Khosmotic Warriors have banded together and rented an old warehouse to use as a headquarters and training facility. Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– This issue features the all out war between the Humants and the Renegade Humants! It's action from cover to cover as Freazie White, Jr. writes and does finished pencils over Mark Poe's layouts and we introduce a new inker, Paul Schulze! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– What happens when you try to administer first aid to an unconscious Humant? Well, in the case of Chaosta things could get pretty scary when she wakes up and thinks she is still battling the Renegade Humants! Man Ark and Sojourner find a lot of trouble for their efforts! Plus: Much More by Freazie White, Jr. new inker, Anthony Grayand Billy Leavell with Letters and Edits! PLUS: An offbeat Bearcat backup tale! By Mark Poe, Freazie White, Jr., Mark Alan Lester and Billy Leavell! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

– Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. In short: we are 3D beings, Tess and Nostradamus are 4D beings.Plus: Much More by Greg Legat writer/creator, Mark Poe with pencils, letters and colors! and J. Adam Walters handling inking embellishment. Featuring never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!

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Happy Birthday, Sal Buscema! Sal Buscema was born January 26, 1936 and has either penciled or inked for Marvel Comicsfrom 1968 through 1996, where he enjoyed memorial stints primarily as a penciler on titles such as X-Men, the Avengers, Marvel Team-up, Captain America, the Defenders, Rom, Space Knight and a ten-year run as artist of The Incredible Hulk. He worked at DC including penciling Batman, Superman, and Superboy stories, and inking the Creeper, Wonder Woman, and other characters’ stories and then back at Marvel where he continued to make deadlines faster than Quicksilver until around 2013 before retiring. He is the younger brother of comics artist, the late John Buscema. (Source: Wikipedia)

The ’70’s Marvel Line – Sal Buscema is probably best remembered for his 10 year run as penciler of The Incredible Hulk. Buscema drew and inked many of the Marvel Characters during the 70’s and he was considered the go-to artist if a book was late and needed a fast fill in. But he did several long runs as penciler on titles as well. He also supplied Marvel with some of it’s most dynamic covers of that decade! Check out this cover he did for The Avengers #89! Whew! You can feel the heat from the energy cascading the distressed figure of Captain Marvel!

Captain America – Next to Jack Kirby, Sal was THE artist for Captain American in the 70’s. He might not have been the most detailed artist, especially depending on who inked his work, but he had the same sense of dynamics which Cap’s original artist did. Many fans had a hard time accepting Sal’s many successor’s on the book even though many of them were fine artists in their own respect. Except for maybe John Byrne, none of the other pencilers had that powerful, action packed, explosive quality Sal’s pencils conveyed. Sal’s work always was better when he inked it himself. He always had more detail when he did the whole art job. Some of the best examples of that was work he did on the Avengers with Roy Thomas. He also did the final issue (#66) of the original run of the original X-Men following Neal Adams before it went into it’s reprint run. Sam Grainger inked that one which is very detailed.

The Defenders- Another title which Sal Buscema was THE artist on was The Defenders. He was the first penciler on the regular series and penciled most of the first 50 issues. Keith Giffen retained some of that dynamic when he assumed penciling chores but he was the bestow Sal’s successors.

Spider-Man – Sal Buscema drew Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up and later in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man. The stories always had that Sal Buscema dynamic story telling but Sal drew Spidey a little too stout at times. It was almost as if Captain America had put on Spidey’s costume. Later, in his career Sal would re imagine his Spider-Man and he seemed a little more like the agile wall crawler Steve Ditko and John Romita drew so well.

Mark’s Remarks:Sal Buscema was another great influence on my artwork. During the ’70’s At the time I was more attracted to realistic art like Neal Adams. I was torn between choosing abstract, more simplistic cartooning, like Sal Buscema and John Romita and the more realistic detail of Adams, Jim Starlin, Frank Brunner, John Buscema and others. Pencilers like Jack Kirby still had a powerful draw on me. Sal was not as abstract as Kirby but not as realistic as Adams. Sal could do great detail work when given the time but a lot of his ’70’s work was abbreviated in the Kirby vein, sacrificing a little detail in favor of simple but powerful action sequences.

Sal Buscema was the original artist for the Defenders! This pin up was contained in the back of Defenders # 6. Notice the dynamic, Kirbyish action poses of our heroes. This is a good representation of most of the powerful but simple artwork Sal did in the ’70’s. In an article I once read by Alex Toth, he alluded to something that has stuck with me. This is not a direct quote but it was something like: “It’s not what you draw but what you don’t.”Minimalism is a technique every cartoonist has to perfect. Too much artwork is overworked. I know mine has been. I’m constantly trying to refine mine and learn better minimalistic techniques. Contemporary cartoonists like Bruce Tim and Darwyn Cooke have mastered this technique in recent years. Both artists tend to use more abstract methods than realistic so they really fit into the Kirby category more so than the Sal Buscema and John Romita column.

Even though officially retired now, or semi-retired might be more appropriate, Sal is still active making occasional convention appearances. He is still doing outstanding art for Marvel, DC, and others. He’s doing some great inking on the Black Dynamite series for IDW. Happy birthday Mr. Buscema! Thanks for all the great comics!

Onward!

Mark

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Archives Spotlight

Archive’s Spotlight is designed to look at all which has come before and add new comments as well. This posting we are reviewing Project: New Man #4 pages 21-22!

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Project: New Man #4 – Page 21 – No art changes on this and the next page. Panel 5 of page 21 has some minor script changes. Almost all the script changes on page 22. Again since we are prepping these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics, we are revising script and art which needs adjusting before going to press. See if you can spot the changes.

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